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Human facial images encode a rich spectrum of information, encompassing both stable identity-related traits and mutable attributes such as pose, expression, and emotion. While recent advances in image generation have enabled high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kazuaki Mishima , Antoni Bigata Casademunt , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic , Kenji Suzuki

This paper presents a novel theoretical framework for understanding how diffusion models can learn disentangled representations. Within this framework, we establish identifiability conditions for general disentangled latent variable models,…

Counterfactual image generation presents significant challenges, including preserving identity, maintaining perceptual quality, and ensuring faithfulness to an underlying causal model. While existing auto-encoding frameworks admit semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Rajat Rasal , Avinash Kori , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Ben Glocker

Current talking avatars mostly generate co-speech gestures based on audio and text of the utterance, without considering the non-speaking motion of the speaker. Furthermore, previous works on co-speech gesture generation have designed…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sicheng Yang , Zunnan Xu , Haiwei Xue , Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang , Mingming Gong , Zhiyong Wu

Audio-driven talking head generation requires precise synchronization between facial animations and audio signals. This paper introduces ATL-Diff, a novel approach addressing synchronization limitations while reducing noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Hoang-Son Vo , Quang-Vinh Nguyen , Seungwon Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang , Soonja Yeom , Soo-Hyung Kim

Recently, talking-face video generation has received considerable attention. So far most methods generate results with neutral expressions or expressions that are implicitly determined by neural networks in an uncontrollable way. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zipeng Ye , Zhiyao Sun , Yu-Hui Wen , Yanan Sun , Tian Lv , Ran Yi , Yong-Jin Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models have endowed talking head synthesis with subtle expressions and vivid head movements, but have also led to slow inference speed and insufficient control over generated results. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Tianqi Li , Ruobing Zheng , Minghui Yang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

Face animation is a challenging task. Existing model-based methods (utilizing 3DMMs or landmarks) often result in a model-like reconstruction effect, which doesn't effectively preserve identity. Conversely, model-free approaches face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Lei Zhu , Yuanqi Chen , Xiaohang Liu , Thomas H. Li , Ge Li

Text-based talking-head video editing aims to efficiently insert, delete, and substitute segments of talking videos through a user-friendly text editing approach. It is challenging because of \textbf{1)} generalizable talking-face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bo Han , Heqing Zou , Haoyang Li , Guangcong Wang , Chng Eng Siong

Training diffusion models on limited datasets poses challenges in terms of limited generation capacity and expressiveness, leading to unsatisfactory results in various downstream tasks utilizing pretrained diffusion models, such as domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Jiwan Hur , Jaehyun Choi , Gyojin Han , Dong-Jae Lee , Junmo Kim

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

The latent space of diffusion model mostly still remains unexplored, despite its great success and potential in the field of generative modeling. In fact, the latent space of existing diffusion models are entangled, with a distorted mapping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jaehoon Hahm , Junho Lee , Sunghyun Kim , Joonseok Lee

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking-head generation enables realistic portrait animation, but also introduces risks of misuse, such as fraud and misinformation. Existing protection methods are largely limited to a single modality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wenli Zhang , Xianglong Shi , Sirui Zhao , Xinqi Chen , Guo Cheng , Yifan Xu , Tong Xu , Yong Liao

Recently, 2D speaking avatars have increasingly participated in everyday scenarios due to the fast development of facial animation techniques. However, most existing works neglect the explicit control of human bodies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Shengyi He , Zhiliang Xu , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Hongtao Xie , Youjian Zhao , Ziwei Liu

Recent successes of deep learning-based recognition rely on maintaining the content related to the main-task label. However, how to explicitly dispel the noisy signals for better generalization in a controllable manner remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xiaofeng Liu

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Large, pretrained latent diffusion models (LDMs) have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to generate creative content, specialize to user data through few-shot fine-tuning, and condition their output on other modalities, such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuru Jia , Lukas Hoyer , Shengyu Huang , Tianfu Wang , Luc Van Gool , Konrad Schindler , Anton Obukhov

Generative models have been widely studied in computer vision. Recently, diffusion models have drawn substantial attention due to the high quality of their generated images. A key desired property of image generative models is the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Ajinkya Kale , Trung Bui , Tong Yu , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Speech-Driven Facial Animation (SDFA) has gained significant attention due to its applications in movies, video games, and virtual reality. However, most existing models are trained on single-language data, limiting their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Federico Nocentini , Kwanggyoon Seo , Qingju Liu , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti , David Ferman , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Akin Caliskan

Facial makeup transfer is a widely-used technology that aims to transfer the makeup style from a reference face image to a non-makeup face. Existing literature leverage the adversarial loss so that the generated faces are of high quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Honglun Zhang , Wenqing Chen , Hao He , Yaohui Jin